Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
NEW COSTA RICA AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO OAS
SECRETARY GENERAL
February 5, 2008
Ambassador José Enrique Castillo Barrantes presented credentials today to Secretary General José Miguel Insulza as Costa Rica’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States (OAS).
Speaking at a brief ceremony, Ambassador Castillo Barrantes thanked the Secretary General for being present in Costa Rica as the nation voted in a referendum on the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Dominican Republic and several Central American countries. “Costa Rica has had a longstanding democratic tradition,” he noted.
Ambassador Castillo said Costa Rica identifies with and is fully supportive of the objectives of the hemispheric organization. He explained: “Our country appreciates your efforts to strengthen the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.”
Praising Costa Rica as “first and foremost, a symbol of peace in our hemisphere,” Secretary General Insulza added, “We are very pleased by your continued willingness to help push the Organization’s goals in that very area.”
He said Costa Rica is in discussions “concerning some issues that are vital to the country’s future,” noting how very pleased he was about “the very decisive and resolute but quiet way in which the President has been conducting those discussions.” Insulza went on to tell the Ambassador, “As you noted, I had the opportunity of being in your country recently to witness another celebration of democracy. It generated a lot of debate and drew massive participation in an atmosphere of freedom, dialogue and peace—as every such occasion in our hemisphere ought to be.”
A lawyer by profession, José Enrique Castillo Barrantes has also served as Ambassador in France, as Minister of Justice and Grace, and founded the University of Costa Rica’s Postgraduate Studies program and was its first director.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin was on hand for the presentation of credentials, as were the OAS Permanent Council Chairman, Ambassador Cornelius A. Smith of the Bahamas; Alternate Ambassador of Costa Rica, Luis Guardia Mora; El Salvador’s Ambassador, Abigail Castro de Pérez; Canada’s Ambassador Graeme Clark; and Alternate Representative of the United States, Edmund Atkins.
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